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Major news Coinbase

Coinbase’s Missed ‘Learning’ on Hiring

Coinbase recently announced a significant workforce reduction, cutting 14% of its employees, a move that CEO Brian Armstrong attributed to the evolving landscape of AI. This decision comes at a...

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Brockman Says Elon Musk Does Not Know AI

In a recent courtroom showdown, Greg Brockman, co-founder and President of OpenAI, asserted that Elon Musk lacks a fundamental understanding of artificial intelligence. This statement came during Musk’s ongoing lawsuit...

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Major news OpenAI

Private Equity’s AI Deals Lighten the Mood at Milken

Private equity firms are making headlines this week with new partnerships involving AI leaders OpenAI and Anthropic, coinciding with the Milken Institute conference. This surge in AI-related deals is particularly...

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Major news ServiceNow

ServiceNow Is Putting Up a New Tollgate for AI Agents

ServiceNow has introduced a new charge for customers using AI agents to access data within its applications, joining the ranks of other tech companies like HubSpot and Workday. This development,...

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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet: No one is coming for us

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, who took the helm of the company in 2024, recently expressed confidence in ASML’s market position during an interview ahead of the Milken Institute Global Conference....

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Major news Apple

Apple Looks to Diversify Chip Manufacturing with Intel and Samsung

Apple is actively pursuing partnerships with Intel and Samsung to expand its chip manufacturing capabilities, a strategic shift aimed at reducing reliance on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). This development...

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Notable research Meta

Audio-Visual Intelligence in Large Foundation Models

Problem This paper addresses the fragmented state of the literature on Audio-Visual Intelligence (AVI) in the context of large foundation models. Despite significant advancements in unified audio-vision architectures, existing research...

arXiv cs.CV multimodal 441w arXiv code You Qin +5
Major research

UniCorrn: Unified Correspondence Transformer Across 2D and 3D

Problem This paper addresses the lack of a unified model for visual correspondence across multiple modalities: 2D-2D, 2D-3D, and 3D-3D. Current approaches typically employ task-specific architectures, leading to inefficiencies and...

arXiv cs.CV multimodal 379w arXiv code Prajnan Goswami +3
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Large Language Models are Universal Reasoners for Visual Generation

Problem This paper addresses the “understanding-generation gap” in text-to-image generation systems, particularly those utilizing large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models. Despite advancements in unified architectures that integrate visual understanding...

arXiv cs.CV reasoning 456w arXiv code Sucheng Ren +5
Major research Meta

Redefining AI Red Teaming in the Agentic Era: From Weeks to Hours

Problem This preprint addresses the inefficiencies in current AI red teaming methodologies, which require operators to manually construct workflows for adversarial testing. Existing approaches are labor-intensive, often taking weeks to...

arXiv cs.AI agents robotics 461w arXiv code Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda +2
Notable research

Conditional Diffusion Sampling

Problem This paper addresses the challenge of sampling from unnormalized multimodal distributions with limited density evaluations, a significant gap in the literature. The authors note that while Parallel Tempering (PT)...

arXiv cs.LG other 443w arXiv code Francisco M. Castro-Macías +5
Notable research Hugging Face

RD-ViT: Recurrent-Depth Vision Transformer for Semantic Segmentation with Reduced Data Dependence Extending the Recurrent-Depth Transformer Architecture to Dense Prediction

Problem This paper addresses the significant data dependence of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in semantic segmentation tasks, particularly in medical imaging, where labeled datasets are often limited. The authors propose RD-ViT,...

arXiv cs.CV efficiency inference 449w arXiv code Renjie He
Major news xAI

xAI’s Fast, Cheap Data Center Build-Out Has Hidden Costs

SpaceX is highlighting xAI’s rapid and cost-effective data center construction as a key competitive edge ahead of its initial public offering. The company claims that xAI managed to launch its...

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Notable research

Inconsistent Databases and Argumentation Frameworks with Collective Attacks

Problem This paper addresses the gap in understanding the relationship between subset-maximal repairs for inconsistent databases and argumentation frameworks, particularly when integrity constraints (ICs) include denial constraints and local-as-view tuple-generating...

arXiv cs.AI theory 477w arXiv code Yasir Mahmood +3
Notable research

Towards Open World Sound Event Detection

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of conventional Sound Event Detection (SED) systems, which operate under a closed-world assumption. Such systems are inadequate for real-world applications where novel acoustic events...

arXiv cs.AI other 437w arXiv code P. H. Hai +2
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Magic-Informed Quantum Architecture Search

Problem This paper addresses the gap in quantum circuit design methodologies that effectively leverage nonstabilizerness, or “magic,” as a resource for achieving quantum advantage. The authors propose a novel approach...

arXiv cs.AI other 447w arXiv code Vincenzo Lipardi +3
Major research

PHALAR: Phasors for Learned Musical Audio Representations

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of existing models in stem retrieval, specifically their inability to effectively utilize temporal information. The authors highlight that current approaches often overlook the significance...

arXiv cs.AI evaluation benchmarks 471w arXiv code Davide Marincione +5
Notable research

Exact ReLU realization of tensor-product refinement iterates

Problem This paper addresses a gap in the literature regarding the exact realization of dyadic refinement operators in two dimensions, specifically for continuous piecewise linear functions. Prior work primarily focused...

arXiv cs.LG theory 455w arXiv code Tsogtgerel Gantumur
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Steer Like the LLM: Activation Steering that Mimics Prompting

Problem This preprint addresses the gap in performance between activation steering methods and prompt-based steering in large language models (LLMs). While both techniques aim to influence model outputs during inference,...

arXiv cs.AI efficiency inference 444w arXiv code Geert Heyman +1
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Spatiotemporal Convolutions on EEG signal -- A Representation Learning Perspective on Efficient and Explainable EEG Classification with Convolutional Neural Nets

Problem This preprint addresses the limitations of existing EEG classification methodologies that predominantly utilize independent one-dimensional (1D) convolutional layers for spatial and temporal feature extraction. The authors highlight a gap...

arXiv cs.AI efficiency inference 416w arXiv code Laurits Dixen +2
Major news Shopify stocks

Shopify Shares Slide on Predicted Revenue Slowdown

Shopify has announced a projected slowdown in revenue growth for the second quarter, leading to a 9% drop in its share price. The e-commerce platform attributed this downturn to rising...

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Notable research

On Adaptivity in Zeroth-Order Optimization

Problem This paper addresses the gap in the effectiveness of adaptive zeroth-order (ZO) optimization methods for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) under memory constraints. The authors challenge prior assertions that...

arXiv cs.LG training methods 427w arXiv code Hassan Dbouk +3
Notable research

Memory-Efficient Continual Learning with CLIP Models

Problem This paper addresses the challenge of catastrophic forgetting in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models when adapting to new tasks in continual learning scenarios. The authors highlight that existing methods...

arXiv cs.LG efficiency inference 441w arXiv code Ryan King +3
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Reproducing Complex Set-Compositional Information Retrieval

Problem This paper addresses the gap in understanding how current information retrieval (IR) paradigms handle complex set-compositional queries, which involve conjunction, disjunction, and exclusion. The authors highlight that existing retrieval...

arXiv cs.CL evaluation benchmarks 444w arXiv code Vincent Degenhart +4
Notable research

Realizable Bayes-Consistency for General Metric Losses

Problem This paper addresses the gap in understanding strong universal Bayes-consistency in the realizable setting for learning with general metric losses. Previous works primarily focused on binary classification and real-valued...

arXiv cs.LG theory 424w arXiv code Dan Tsir Cohen +2
Major research

TriBench-Ko: Evaluating LLM Risks in Judicial Workflows

Problem This paper addresses a significant gap in the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) within judicial workflows, particularly in the context of Korean legal systems. Existing benchmarks primarily focus...

arXiv cs.CL evaluation benchmarks 499w arXiv code Haesung Lee +5
Major news OpenAI

Greg Brockman’s Rough Day

In a high-stakes courtroom drama, Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, faced intense scrutiny from Elon Musk’s legal team regarding his substantial financial interests in the AI organization. This...

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Notable research

Segmenting Human-LLM Co-authored Text via Change Point Detection

Problem This preprint addresses the gap in the capability of existing text detectors to segment human-written and LLM-generated text within co-authored documents. Current methodologies typically yield a binary classification for...

arXiv cs.CL other 454w arXiv code Mengchu Li +3
Notable news Amazon

Amazon Could Offer ‘Hybrid Mode’ AI Search on Retail Site

Amazon is exploring the integration of its Rufus AI shopping assistant into its primary search functionality, potentially introducing a “hybrid mode” that combines traditional search results with AI-generated commentary. This...

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Major news Coinbase stocks

Coinbase to Cut 14% Jobs, Citing Market Conditions and AI

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, has announced plans to lay off 14% of its workforce, equating to approximately 700 employees. This decision comes amid challenging market...

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Notable news Amazon

Amazon’s Durability

Amazon has made significant strides in the AI landscape, particularly in the inference era, positioning itself as a formidable player despite earlier setbacks in the training phase. This shift is...

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Major news OpenAI

GPT-5.5 Instant System Card

OpenAI has unveiled the GPT-5.5 Instant System Card, a significant update that enhances the capabilities of its generative AI models. This release is crucial as it aims to improve user...

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Major news OpenAI

GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.5 Instant, an upgraded version of its ChatGPT model, designed to deliver smarter, clearer, and more personalized responses. This release is particularly significant as it addresses previous...

OpenAI Blog model release 219w
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A blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy

A new framework has emerged that outlines how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to bolster democratic processes, drawing parallels to historical shifts in information dissemination that have shaped governance. This...

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Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

A new hands-on workshop invites participants to build their own language model from scratch, utilizing Andrej Karpathy’s nanoGPT framework. This initiative aims to demystify the process of training large language...

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Major news Palantir stocks

Palantir’s AI Boom; Ryan Cohen’s Chutzpah

Palantir Technologies has reported a remarkable 85% revenue growth in its first-quarter results, raising questions about its dominance in the enterprise software sector. This surge comes at a time when...

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Notable news OpenAI

New ways to buy ChatGPT ads

OpenAI has launched a beta self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT, introducing cost-per-click (CPC) bidding and improved measurement tools. This move is significant as it allows advertisers to have more control...

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Notable research

Force-free molecular dynamics through autoregressive equivariant networks

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of traditional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which rely heavily on force calculations to predict atomic trajectories. These calculations can be computationally expensive and time-consuming,...

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Major news Palantir stocks

Palantir Shares Flat After Earnings Despite U.S. Sales Growth

Palantir Technologies has reported a remarkable 85% revenue growth, exceeding $1.6 billion for the March quarter, and has raised its full-year growth projection to 71%. Despite this impressive performance, the...

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Major news

Trump Administration Weighs New AI Model Guardrails

The Trump administration is considering a shift in its strategy for overseeing artificial intelligence as the capabilities of AI models continue to expand. This reevaluation comes at a critical time...

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Major news Cisco stocks

Cisco to Acquire Agent Security Startup Astrix

Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Astrix, an Israeli startup specializing in cybersecurity, marking a significant move in the tech giant’s strategy to bolster its security offerings. This acquisition...

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Major news Pinterest stocks

Pinterest Reports 18% Revenue Growth in Q1

Pinterest has reported an impressive 18% revenue growth for the first quarter, reaching $854.9 million. This surge comes at a crucial time as the company continues to adapt to a...

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Major news OpenAI stocks

OpenAI Sets up $10 Billion Private-Equity Joint Venture

OpenAI has launched a significant new initiative, raising $4 billion from 19 prominent private equity firms and consultancies, including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Bain Capital, and Advent. This joint venture...

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Notable research

AIs and Humans with Agency

Problem This preprint addresses the gap in understanding the concept of agency in AI systems compared to human agency. While human agency is a complex construct that develops over years,...

arXiv cs.AI theory 455w arXiv code David Mumford
Notable research

FunFuzz: An LLM-Powered Evolutionary Fuzzing Framework

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of existing LLM-driven fuzzing techniques, which are often sensitive to prompt initialization and sampling variance. These issues can lead to inefficient exploration of the...

arXiv cs.CL efficiency inference 470w arXiv code Mario Rodríguez Béjar +2
Notable research

Static Analysis of Recursive SHACL

Problem This paper addresses a significant gap in the static analysis of SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) documents, specifically the lack of tools to compare the validity of different SHACL documents....

arXiv cs.AI theory 437w arXiv code Anouk Oudshoorn +2
Notable research

Fine-Grained Graph Generation through Latent Mixture Scheduling

Problem This paper addresses the gap in fine-grained control over graph generation, which is crucial for applications in drug discovery, social network modeling, and knowledge graph construction. Existing methods primarily...

arXiv cs.AI other 430w arXiv code Nidhi Vakil +1
Notable research Hugging Face

Linearizing Vision Transformer with Test-Time Training

Problem This paper addresses the challenge of effectively transferring weights from pretrained Softmax attention models to linear-complexity attention mechanisms, specifically in the context of Vision Transformers (ViTs). The authors highlight...

arXiv cs.CV efficiency inference 395w arXiv code Yining Li +5
Notable research

TOC-SR: Task-Optimal Compact diffusion for Image Super Resolution

Problem This paper addresses the gap in the efficiency of diffusion models for image super-resolution (SR), particularly their large model sizes and computational demands during iterative sampling. The authors propose...

arXiv cs.AI efficiency inference 408w arXiv code Sowmya Vajrala +5
Notable research

Unified Map Prior Encoder for Mapping and Planning

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of existing online mapping and end-to-end (E2E) planning systems in autonomous driving, which predominantly rely on sensor data while underutilizing diverse map priors such...

arXiv cs.CV agents robotics 449w arXiv code Zongzheng Zhang +5
Major research

Mitigating Misalignment Contagion by Steering with Implicit Traits

Problem This preprint addresses a significant gap in the literature regarding the phenomenon of misalignment contagion in multi-agent settings involving language models (LMs). While existing alignment research predominantly focuses on...

arXiv cs.AI alignment safety 443w arXiv code Maria Chang +5
Notable research

Bolek: A Multimodal Language Model for Molecular Reasoning

Problem This paper addresses the gap in the interpretability and auditability of molecular property models used in drug discovery. Traditional models provide scores without rationale, while existing language models (LMs)...

arXiv cs.AI multimodal 470w arXiv code Frederic Grabowski +5
Notable research

Triple Spectral Fusion for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition

Problem This paper addresses the limitations in sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) systems, particularly the challenges in fusing heterogeneous sensor data from Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and establishing long-term context...

arXiv cs.AI other 410w arXiv code Ye Zhang +5
Notable research

AI and Open-data Driven Scalable Solar Power Profiling

Problem This preprint addresses the significant gap in the availability of detailed, up-to-date spatial data on rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Despite the rapid expansion of solar PV deployment, existing...

arXiv cs.AI foundation models 448w arXiv code Shiliang Zhang +2
Critical research

Perceptual Flow Network for Visually Grounded Reasoning

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of existing Large-Vision Language Models (LVLMs) in visually grounded reasoning, particularly the issues of language bias and hallucination stemming from general optimization objectives like...

arXiv cs.AI reasoning 384w arXiv code Yangfu Li +5
Notable research

Robust and Fast Training via Per-Sample Clipping

Problem This paper addresses the limitations of existing gradient estimation techniques in the presence of heavy-tailed gradient noise, which can significantly hinder the convergence of stochastic optimization algorithms. The authors...

arXiv cs.LG training methods 431w arXiv code Davide Nobile +1
Notable research

Random-Effects Algorithm for Random Objects in Metric Spaces

Problem This paper addresses the gap in modeling random effects for non-Euclidean random objects in metric spaces, a scenario prevalent in various scientific disciplines where multiple observations are collected from...

arXiv cs.LG other 403w arXiv code Marcos Matabuena +1
Notable research

Online Generalised Predictive Coding

Problem This paper addresses the gap in online data assimilation techniques that can simultaneously infer latent states, learn unknown model parameters, and estimate uncertainty in dynamic environments. The authors propose...

arXiv cs.LG theory 411w arXiv code Mehran H. Z. Bazargani +4
Notable research

The 2026 ACII Dyadic Conversations (DaiKon) Workshop & Challenge

Problem The paper presents the 2026 ACII Dyadic Conversations (ACII-DaiKon) Workshop & Challenge, addressing a significant gap in the literature on interpersonal affect modeling in dyadic conversations. Existing benchmarks predominantly...

arXiv cs.CL multimodal 421w arXiv code Panagiotis Tzirakis +5
Notable research

CNNs for Vis-NIR Chemometrics: From Contradiction to Conditional Design

Problem This preprint addresses the inconsistencies in convolutional neural network (CNN) design choices for near-infrared (NIR) chemometrics, where studies report conflicting results regarding optimal architectures, kernel sizes, preprocessing methods, and...

arXiv cs.LG other 389w arXiv code Dário Passos
Notable news xAI

Cursor Keeps Its Distance From xAI Despite Tie-Up

Cursor, the coding startup recently entangled in a conditional $60 billion takeover offer from SpaceX, is distancing itself from SpaceX’s xAI unit. Despite expectations from some competitors that Cursor would...

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Major news SAP

SAP Moves to Block OpenClaw and Other Unauthorized AI Agents

SAP has taken a significant step to safeguard its enterprise software ecosystem by proposing a ban on the use of unauthorized AI agents, including those developed by competitors like Salesforce...

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Tailoring AI solutions for health care needs

The AI industry is increasingly focusing on health care, a sector ripe for transformation amid financial strains, labor shortages, and the demands of an aging population. With a multitude of...

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Notable research

A multilingual hallucination benchmark: MultiWikiQHalluA

Problem This paper addresses the gap in the evaluation of hallucination phenomena in multilingual settings, particularly focusing on lower-resource languages. Most existing research on hallucinations in AI models has predominantly...

arXiv cs.CL evaluation benchmarks 398w arXiv code Freja Thoresen +1
Notable research

ATLAS: Article Tracking, Linking, and Analysis of Swedish Encyclopedias

Problem This preprint addresses the gap in the digitization of historical encyclopedias, specifically focusing on the Swedish encyclopedia Nordisk familjebok. Traditional digitization methods often rely solely on optical character recognition...

arXiv cs.CL other 458w arXiv code Albin Andersson +3
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Leveraging Argument Structure to Predict Content Hatefulness

Problem This paper addresses the gap in the literature regarding the intersection of argument structure analysis and the prediction of content hatefulness, particularly in the context of online discourse. The...

arXiv cs.CL other 464w arXiv code Nicolas Benjamin Ocampo +1
Notable research

Measuring AI Reasoning: A Guide for Researchers

Problem This paper addresses the inadequacy of existing evaluation metrics for reasoning in language models, particularly the reliance on final-answer accuracy as the sole measure of reasoning capability. The authors...

arXiv cs.CL reasoning 447w arXiv code Munachiso Samuel Nwadike +4
Major news Google stocks

Google Earnings, Meta Earnings

In a stark contrast of market reactions, Google’s latest earnings report has been met with enthusiasm from Wall Street, while Meta’s results have drawn skepticism despite a stronger core business...

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DeepSeek V4 and the AI Battlefront - microwire.info

DeepSeek has launched its latest version, DeepSeek V4, amidst a rapidly evolving AI landscape that is increasingly competitive. This new iteration promises enhanced capabilities in data retrieval and analysis, positioning...

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Notable news OpenAI

Musk Messaged Brockman About Settlement

Elon Musk reached out to OpenAI president Greg Brockman just days before the trial concerning Musk’s lawsuit against him, exploring the possibility of a settlement. This development highlights the ongoing...

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Major news ServiceNow stocks

GameStop Makes Bid to Buy eBay for $56 Billion

GameStop has made a bold move by offering to acquire eBay for $56 billion, proposing a price of $125 per share, which represents a 20% premium over eBay’s closing price...

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Notable research

Combining Trained Models in Reinforcement Learning

Problem This paper addresses the fragmented literature on pretrained knowledge reuse in deep reinforcement learning (DRL), highlighting the high sample cost and limited transferability of DRL models across tasks. The...

arXiv cs.NE other 420w arXiv code Ujjwal Patil +1
Notable news OpenAI

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

OpenAI has made significant strides in enhancing its WebRTC stack to deliver low-latency voice AI, enabling seamless real-time conversations at a global scale. This development is particularly timely as the...

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